Sarah Palin can't write, can't speak, and now, can't add: $100K = $0

By GottaLaff

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Leave it to The Mudflats to come up with more point-and-laughitude at Mathless McTaxFree and her complete lack of simple elementary school academic skills:

You’ll recall that the Palins have for years been claiming a $12,000 property value for the parcel of land itself, but a $0 building value for the cabin that sits on the land. But after first reporting on that finding here, the Matanuska Susitna Borough assessors did a fly-over of the cabin and have now reported its actual value at just shy of $100,000. [...] Pretty fancy for a lowly recreational cabin and outbuildings that the owners reported as worthless just the year before. And the year before that. And the year before that. [...]

As an example of how seriously the ex-almost-one-term governor holds the paying of one’s property taxes, and how much she scorns those who shirk their civic duty, we are reminded of an incident that happened several years ago.

In 2004, it came to light that Republican Rep. Vic Kohring owed the borough $2,277 in unpaid property taxes on property he owns off Knik-Goose Bay Road, according to borough records. “That bothered former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin enough that she declined a campaign request to do a pro-Kohring TV commercial. As a former mayor, Palin said, it made her uncomfortable to back someone with unpaid taxes when the city relies on property taxes.” [Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), 10/28/04]

If only Mathless had learned a little something about arithmetic by picking up a book-- oh, never mind. Okay, a Highlights for Children magazine that-- not so much. A pamphlet? Read her own hand notes?

Then again, what could she have possibly read that would have taught her about hypocrisy?

Oh, I know. The Bible.

Sarah Palin's property tax problem; ‘I am so sorry I’m such a weasel’

By GottaLaff

The Mudflats does it again:

When the Democrats were finished with her, they had a 63-page document. There were lots of interesting things in the document, including this.

Pg. 48/63 Palin Declined to Appear in Ads for A Candidate Because He Had Not Paid His Property Taxes.

In 2004, it came to light that Republican Rep. Vic Kohring owed the borough $2,277 in unpaid property taxes on property he owns off Knik-Goose Bay Road, according to borough records. “That bothered former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin enough that she declined a campaign request to do a pro-Kohring TV commercial. As a former mayor, Palin said, it made her uncomfortable to back someone with unpaid taxes when the city relies on property taxes.” [Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), 10/28/04]

Admirable, huh?

Not so fast:

Recently, Sarah Palin gave an interview to Bill O’Reilly and said her favorite vacation spot was “The middle of nowhere at our cabin in Petersville,” Alaska.

And now we get to the envelope. Inside the envelope was an unsigned letter which read:

Todd and Sarah are now millionaires, but they shirk their responsibility to pay local property taxes.

One more nugget:

She talked to the Anchorage Daily News.

Pg. 15/63 Palin Called Herself “Such a Weasel” For Not Having a Firm Stand on the Property Tax Cap.

Palin said she has declined requests by Tax Cap Yes to speak in favor of the initiative. Yet, she said, she doesn’t object to her name’s continuing to be listed on the group’s Web site among 10 current or former government officials — half from Mat-Su — in support of the initiative. Palin acknowledged that she was sounding quite the politician. ‘I am so sorry I’m such a weasel,’ she said.”
[Anchorage Daily News, 10/8/00]

That was the tease. Now go read the post.

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C Street House No Longer Tax Exempt

By GottaLaff

C Street is becoming C Dirt Road. C Alley? C Ya Later:

Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes. [...]

In recent year, Senators John Ensign (R-NV), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Jim DeMint (R-SC), and Reps. Zach Wamp (R-TN), Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Mike Doyle (D-PA) have all reportedly called C Street home.

And their paramours have called it home too! More like C Street Motel. How generous of the C Street Christian Family to share all that living space so generously with their little friends.

Natalie Wilson, a spokeswoman for the Office of Tax and Revenue:

"It was determined that portions of it were being rented out for private residential purposes," she said. As a result, the tax exempt status was partially revoked. Sixty-six percent of the value of the property is now subject to taxation.

"Private residential purposes," huh? Kinda makes one's head spin with possibilities.

I'll stop now before I get into trouble.

Here's a vid-tweet from Rachel Maddow's producer now that mentions this very topic:

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New poll shows Indiana governor's race close

A reader asked yesterday about this race when I posted about Obama taking the lead in Indiana. I don't pay enough attention to local races (bad Paddy), but I see Long Thompson squeaking thru if the newly registered Democrats come out like I think they will. Daniels is running a couple different ads that are pretty boilerplate, and stupidly one of them is about property taxes which he promises to "fix" in his second term, but are currently causing many huge problems and not a good thing to remind people about.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A new statewide poll shows a close race between Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels and Democratic challenger Jill Long Thompson.

The Indianapolis Star-WTHR poll released Thursday night found 46 percent of likely voters supported Daniels while 42 percent favored Long Thompson. The difference matched the poll's margin of error of four percentage points.

The poll was a telephone survey of 600 likely voters conducted Sunday through Tuesday by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa.